Telangana’s innovation playbook is expanding beyond Hyderabad. IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu announced plans that the State will soon set up T-Hub-style incubation centres in Warangal and Nalgonda to nurture startups, researchers, and innovators.
Speaking at the Golden Jubilee of the Kakatiya University Pharma Alumni Association at Nampally on Saturday, the Minister said the move is part of Telangana’s vision to become an “Innovation Hub” and the “Pharmacy of Purpose” — where technology meets empathy.
The government will soon sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Kakatiya University and Mahatma Gandhi University to establish the centres. “When science is infused with empathy, every innovation becomes a force for social good,” Sridhar Babu said, adding that Telangana has already attracted Rs 54,000 crore in life sciences investments in just 18 months, including global majors like Eli Lilly.
“Machines may diagnose diseases faster than doctors, but no technology can replace the compassion of the human heart,” he said, urging Non-Resident Indian (NRI) professionals to become “knowledge investors” in India’s growth story.
Addressing young innovators, Sridhar Babu left a message that resonated beyond policy — “History remembers not the number of patents one holds, but the number of lives improved by one’s innovation.”
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